Course overview & logistics:
syllabus; schedule.
Student Presentations
Content introduction: Intro to course
questionnaire
Lev Manovich Defining AI Arts: Three Proposals Eitan Mendelowitz Intelligent Environments and Public Art
VR Typography
Screen by Noah Wardrip-Fruin
The Virtual Frontier by Angela Riechers
Breaking Boxes – Typography and Augmented Reality
Discussion
Readings and Presentations
Project Concepts/Ideas
1. Reed articles from week 1 and 2 / take notes.
2. Brainstorm your proposed VR concept with classmates and peers;
3. Create a PDF presentation which includes the following slides:
-project title / motto
-proposed concept description (300 words)
-sketches/ inspirational illustrations/designs that inspired your concept
-references
Project Discussions / Intro to VR, Unity Intro to Unity
Readings + Videos: Unity 3D Essential Training Ch. 1-4 and 6 (UIC LinkedIn account) Yuichiro Katsumoto Robotype: Studies of Kinetic Typography by Robot Display for Expressing Letters, Time and Movement Angus Forbes Creative AI: From Expressive Mimicry to Critical Inquiry Assignment 2: Project proposal
Class Project Discussion / Brainstorming / Ideation Collaborative project / Exhibition slides Intro to Unity scripting
Readings + Videos: class Lab 2 video recording Unity Learn Tutorial "Conventions and Syntax" C# for Unity Game Development Ch. 1 Unity 3D 2019 Essential Training Ch. 15 "Intro to Scripting" Enhanced Family Tree: Evolving Research and Expression by Fan Xiang and colleagues CAVE: Making Collective Virtual Narrative by Kris Layng, Ken Perlin, Sebastian Herscher, Corinne Brenner and Thomas Meduri Assignment Project Proposal (300 words+) / Sketches / Visualizations / Storyboard
Project Discussion / Presentations Intro to Interaction
Readings + Videos:C# for Unity Game Development Ch. 3, 4 Unity 3D 2019 Essential Training Ch. 9, 10 "Audio and light"
Assignment Project VRE in Unity
Intro to Interaction Part 2 Class project discussion
Assignment Design scene/room in Unity Scene Interaction planUnity terrain lab Unity 2019 terrains video
Assignment Scene/room VRE and aesthetics
Review / Worsksession Unity components, particles, instantiate Class project discussion
Readings + Videos: particles video
Assignment Scene/room VRE interaction
Review of Scenes Class project worksession
Assignment Final VRE scene
Week 9
Midterm Review / Class project
Teleport, Collisions, Parenting
Assignment Stand alone module of the Final VRE scene
Collaborative Project Review / Class Worksession
Assignment
Stand-alone scene with complete interaction and graphics ready for integration
Research Paper/Decide on your project and venue for submission
Readings + Videos:
Potential venues: HCI International- November 2 abstract 800 words Design Principles and Practice- December 3 Communication and Media Studies-Advanced proposal December 7 Conference on the Image-13 February Seventeenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability - January 25 CAA Graduate Projects Screening VGA Zine Publication (Planned) The Arts in Society Conference-March 16 Journal Design Principles and Practice - January 15 TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN (TAD) invites submissions of original research from scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students for consideration in the upcoming Intelligence issue - January 15 call for papers Visible Language journal- Ongoing call for papers for December Issue online
Research paper discussion Seminar Papper Guidelines Assignment Review Paper
Project Documentation
Assignment Research paper presentations br> Project documentation
Project exhibition
Assignment
Project documentation
Week 14
Final lab
Week 15
Final Review